John Edwards

Sometimes you don't know where to begin. OK, let's start with AIG. Remember when the mega-insurer was on the brink of collapse and the government bailed it out to the tune of billions? Remember how the loan saved the company, along with thousands of jobs? Remember the television commercials AIG has been airing recently in which the company thanks the American people for saving their ass-ets? Well, the guys currently running AIG apparently didn't. Until they succumbed to public outrage this past week, the company's board was thinking of joining a lawsuit against the government (aka the hand that fed them), alleging the terms of the bailout were unfair to the...

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